Debian 3.0: DSA 252-1 Critical: Slocate Arbitrary Code Execution

A problem has been discovered in slocate, a secure locate replacement.
A buffer overflow in the setuid program slocate can be used to execute
arbitrary code as superuser.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been
fixed in version 2.6-1.3.1.

The old stable distribution (potato) is not affected by this problem.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.7-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your slocate package immediately.


Upgrade Instructions
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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.


Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody

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